Sunday, February 8, 2015

The
March meeting will focus on Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam, a doctor whose book has been made into a TV series.

This book's presentation states that, "in
their scalpel-sharp prose and unflinching gaze, the stories in Bloodletting & Miraculous Curesintroduce a
powerful new voice in Canadian fiction... Lam holds in delicate and skillful tension black humour, investigations
of both common and extraordinary moral dilemmas, and a sometimes shockingly
realistic and matter-of-fact portrait of today's medical profession... He brings to vivid and
convincing life the disparate but interdependent worlds of school and home,
heartbreaking young love and life-altering fear in stories that introduce us to
Fitz, Ming, Chen, and Sri, young medical school students and doctors in Toronto."